Perhaps I was going for sullen, perhaps I wanted to convey ennui (having learned the meaning of the term as a teen, but having dropped

A lot of my family members and friends aren’t aware that in a much earlier part of my life, I was a real hep cat. 

Mark writes about this concert that took place a 1968 when he was just seventeen, and you know what I mean, in Brooklyn College Magazine

That’s my Dad, me, my Mom, and brother Lenny in what to me looks like 1953. This was before children learned to look at cameras